[Toybox] complaining about 'ifconfig' - better use 'ip'

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Apr 4 17:53:11 PDT 2013


On 04/04/2013 03:09:39 AM, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
> * Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [04.04.2013 10:03]:
> > $ man ip | wc -l
> > 1853
> > $ man ifconfig | wc -l
> > 185
> 
> here:
> bastian at box:~$ for F in ifconfig arp netstat route; do man $F; done |  
> wc -l
> 756

Ok.

> bastian at box:~$ man ip | wc -l
> 150
> 
> bastian at box:~$ lsb_release  -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch)
> Release:	13.04
> Codename:	raring

You're aware that this man page is available online, right?

   http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man8/ip.8.html

That's a lot more than 150 lines. Would you like to explain what page  
you were actually looking at that's 150 lines?

Rob


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